02541cam a2200385 i 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700700030003400800410003701000170007802000250009502000220012004000290014204100080017104200080017904300120018705000230019908200100022210000310023224500960026325000280035926400560038730000660044333600260050933700280053533800270056350400510059050502240064152010520086565100360191765100460195394200120199999900190201195201250203022659973BJBSDDR20250528165456.0ta220616s2023    nyuab    b    001 0 eng    a  2022019954  a9781250872173 (pbk.)  a1250872170 (pbk.)  aLBSOR/DLCerdabengcDLC  aeng  apcc  an-us---14aHA 181bB762d 202300a317.31 aBouk, Dan, d1980- 94226010aDemocracy's data :bthe hidden stories in the U.S. census and how to read them /cDan Bouk.  aFirst paperback edition 1aNew York :bMCD ;bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,c2023  a xii, 362 pages : billustrations, maps, facsimiles ; c21 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aStories in the data -- The question men -- Names and negotiations -- Partners -- Counting with friends -- Silences and white supremacy -- Uncle Sam v. Senator Tobey -- The inventory and the arsenal -- The data's depths.  aThe census isn't just a data-collection process; it's a ritual, and a tool, of American democracy. Behind every neat grid of numbers is a collage of messy, human stories--you just have to know how to read them. In Democracy's Data, the data historian Dan Bouk examines the 1940 U.S. census, uncovering what those numbers both condense and cleverly abstract: a universe of meaning and uncertainty, of cultural negotiation and political struggle. He introduces us to the men and women employed as census takers, bringing us with them as they go door to door, recording the lives of their neighbors. He takes us into the makeshift halls of the Census Bureau, where hundreds of civil servants, not to mention machines, labored with pencil and paper to divide and conquer the nation's data. And he uses these little points to paint bigger pictures, such as of the ruling hand of white supremacy, the place of queer people in straight systems, and the struggle of ordinary people to be seen by the state as they see themselves-- cProvided by publisher. 4aUnited StatesxCensusxHistory. 0aEstados Unidos xCenso xHistoria 942371  2lcccBK  c123590d123590  00102lcc40708CSaBJBbBJBcCSd2025-05-26l0oHA 181 B762d 2023p00000190403r2025-05-26 00:00:00t1w2025-05-26yBK